DYSANIA
Do you suffer from Dysania? You probably do. As do I. And basically everyone else on Earth suffers from Dysania! (In a loose sense of the term...)
Actually, the word Dysania is a more common word for the actual term, Clinomania. And, apparently, it's an actually serious affliction! I guess there are people out there that completely have problems getting out of bed. And, no. It's not that they just hit the Snooze button a couple of extra times. They can suffer from headaches to migraines, from extreme tiredness to depression. So, I guess we don't actually all have it. We just like our beds. :)
Clinomania (Which is nowhere near as awesome-sounding as Dysania) comes from the Greek roots Clino- , meaning bed, and -Mania, meaning addiction. So really, it's like having a drug addiction in a sense. You just love it so much that you always need more. Although, in this case, it just means more than you already had, not more each time. Okay. So it isn't like that at all. Sue me.
How could you use this in a sentence? Wow... Uh... How about like this:
The red Dragon, afflicted by dysania, often had trouble waking up, so he rigged a bucket of hot ashes to fall on him every morning.
That works, right?
Yeah. I didn't really have much to go on this week. But next week (Or rather in 2 weeks), I will make up for it completely with the word Natiform. And, again, please don't look it up ahead of time. This will be your last warning.
ALSO! I had a question. I've heard (From Wikipedia) that you can use the sentence Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. This would technically mean "The Bison from Buffalo, NY, that are bothered by the Bison from NY, bother the Bison from NY." So, in the Buffalo Buffalo... etc, would you need a the and a that in there, as in:
The Buffalo buffalo (that Buffalo buffalo buffalo) buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
Right?
Nice post. Also, in the sentence above, I think if you substituted the word "APE" for Buffalo, it may still work?
ReplyDeleteOn second thought... no
Which version of Buffalo?
DeleteA: City
B: Animal
C: Verb